By popular demand I am happy to announce the location of bi-weekly meetup spot. We have chosen Café Coco. It’s centrally located and and easy to find, the food is good and inexpensive they have beer if you want it and there is fantastic people watching. We will be meeting up the second and fourth Wednesday of each month. That puts our first meeting on the 8th of September.
Café Coco is located at 210 Louise Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203-1812, We will be hanging out at least two hours from 7-9pm, that leaves some time for some riding for those who would like to participate.
Stay tuned for a scootnashville calendar and another contest! I hope to see a bunch of ya on the 8th!
I am sure by now some blog posts written by extremely influential blogs have come to your attention. Both 2strokebuzz and thescooterscoop have extremely lengthy posts dealing with the current condition of the scooter industry and market. In short, it isn’t looking peachy. The main example being used is the Chapter 11 bankruptcy of The Scooter Superstore of America. They were out to be a true superstore. They have/had all the right brands from the budget bike to top of the line. From the outside it’s easy to point out the flaws of the business model. It’s a cinch to point fingers, hindsight is 20/20. The biggest thing to pull from these articles isn’t what is happening to a big distributor based in Fort Lauderdale, or even the current issues with Piaggio, the main point is to know what’s happening in our backyard and doing out best to change it.
Now is the time to keep talking up scooters to your friends and family, now is the time to buy that rear rack or top case that you’ve been putting off, or to replace that helmet that’s three seasons old. You get the point. The fact is you can do a little to help fix this, spread the word, keep it local, and more importantly keep riding.
There has been some confusion about the Activity Feed/Forum Posts. In the past your forum posts would show up there, and people could comment on the post from the feed, but it wouldn’t map to the actual forum. As a fix I have disabled the forum posts from being able to accept a reply in the activity feed.
As of now the Forum is the forum and the feed is for everything else that happens on your profile. I apologize for the past confusion of this user un-friendly feature on the board. If you notice anything else that needs to be fixed let me know so I can get it resolved ASAP.
I have to agree with the comments, I’ve never needed a clown proof jacket. Water proof would be ideal, though I am the first to admit I am a sissy when it comes to riding in the rain. Maybe one day I will trust my skills.
I don’t know of any shops that sell this stuff, but it is a european equal to Corazzo. Style and protection, together. Anyway, enjoy the video.
So our fiftieth user registered today. Our first contest has come to an end. I will be performing the draw tonight or tomorrow and will have a video announcement posted.
This post is going to make our very own @jprestonian extremely happy.
It looks like KymcoUSA is launching the Downtown 300i in the US after all. Kymco has added it to their website, Kymco USA. Philidelphia Scooters announced it on twitter.
And finally, we get wowed with this video. Though it was uploaded on June 24th it’s a sign that is getting hard to ignore.
Retailing for a cool $5600, its another fuel injected bike which is a great trend for the USA. So what say you folks? Is this a buy or not?
**Update!**
It looks like this bike is ready for special order for the US. So anyone want to jump in for a 300cc fuel injected bike?
It’s happened to us all. Or most all of us. You’re putting along. Enjoying the scenery having a relaxing ride and all of a sudden someone veers into your lane, or someone comes hauling up behind you way to fast, or even better someone cuts you off and you see them texting or focused on the GPS unit in their car. We’re the smaller vehicle, and painfully more vulnerable than those all caged up in a car, and we can only try so hard to be visible. Reflective gear, helmets with LED lights in the back, and my personal favorite a really bright red backpack. I dug out this ad from YouTube. It’s probably from the UK and I love it. It gives me chills every time I see it. Show it to your friends, your family, have them show it to everyone they know.
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We are a scooter community in Nashville, Tennessee. Not quite a "club" but we like those too. Open for all bikes, all the time our goal is to get people out to ride.
